Originally posted by Koga-Shinobi
So out of all you MA fundi's out there, not a single one of you knows what kobujutsu is??? Strange.:mst:
First off there are plenty of people on this board that could give you a long detailed description of kobujutsu. However they probably read your snide comment and figured they had better things to do.
I really can't understand why so many folks ask questions like this. There is a thing called a "search engine" and with it you can find pretty much everything you would ever want to know about.
Now to answer your question:
The word "kobudo" in Japanese means "old martial way". Ko=old, bu= martial, do=way. "Jutsu" means technique so Kobujutsu= "old martial technique" .......it has mainly been associated with old style weapons training in either Japanese arts or Okinawan but is not limited to Okinawan arts nor is it really limitied to weapons.
It can mean both empty and weaponed arts, but the more common usage is to associate it with weapons.
In Okinawan systems if kobudo is taught in the dojo it is usually after the student has gained a certain rank in Karate. This differs from dojo to dojo.
You do know what Karate is, don't you?
Lastly, In your profile it says you study Ninjutsu.........if that is true then you should have already know what Kobudo/jutsu is since it is a large part of the Ninja system.
